+ Vic and Sade was an American radio program created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio from 1932 to 1944, then intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957. During its 14-year run on radio, Vic and Sade became one of the most popular series of its kind, earning critical and popular success: according to Time, Vic and Sade had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. For the majority of its span on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute episodes without a continuing storyline. The central characters, known as "radio's home folks," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook (Art Van Harvey), his wife Sade (Bernadine Flynn) and their adopted son Rush (Bill Idelson). The three lived on Virginia Avenue in "the small house halfway up in the next block." The program was presented with a low-key ease and naturalness, and Rhymer's humorous dialogue was delivered with a subtleness that made even the most outrageous events seem commonplace and normal. Vic and Sade was technically a "soap opera," in time slots slanted toward an audience of housewives, and sponsored by food items and cleaning products. Rhymer evidently felt some pressure from the sponsor's advertising agencies to include more romance and human interaction into his scripts, like the other daytime dramas on the air. Rhymer complied in his own dry way, by adding ridiculous touches (his romantic lead, Dwight Twentysixler, always speaks with his "mouth full of shingle nails"!) and oddball characters (Orville Wheeney, the slow-witted gas-meter man; Jimmy Custard, the crochety town official who never quite makes clear what he does; Mr. Sprawl, the frail old man who dotes on "peanuts with chocolate smeared on the outsides"). Vic and Sade went off the air September 29, 1944 but was brought back several times. In 1945, the cast was augmented to include many characters who were previously only talked about. In 1946 it was a summer replacement series, now in a half-hour format and played in front of a live studio audience. Later that year it became a sustaining (unsponsored) feature on the Mutual network.-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Vic And Sade
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| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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| 09.08.1944 | vics business trip |
+ Vic is going to Chicago tonight. Excitement! The body of the show only | |
| 09.11.1944 | honeymoon guide |
+ Uncle Fletcher is smarting under the burden of his landlady's wedding. The body of the show only... | |
| 09.12.1944 | freds car repairs |
+ The Gooks have been invited to visit the Stembottoms to work on Ted's car. The body of the show o... | |
| 09.13.1944 | aunt besses 6th letter |
+ Sade insists that Vic and Rush read a letter from her sister Bess. Ham! Ham! The program's open, ... | |
| 09.14.1944 | working on hank gutstops debts |
+ Vic has plan to collect the $20 that Hank Gutstop owes him. The program's open, close and commer... | |
| 09.15.1944 | the wedding ring |
+ Ivory Flakes. Uncle Fletcher is busy helping his landlady with her marriage preparations | |
| 09.18.1944 | vics greeting cards |
+ Vic is at home in a foul mood. He's just been sold a stack of greeting cards by Mrs. Gullstone. ... | |
| 09.19.1944 | vic to be best man |
+ Uncle Fletcher wants Vic to be best man for his landlady's bridegroom, and Sade to put him up for... | |
| 09.20.1944 | reverend v cook |
+ Sade receives a dunning letter that should have been sent to Reverend Cook. The program's open, c... | |
| 09.21.1944 | groom arriving |
+ The body of the show only. Uncle Fletcher is going to meet Harry Feedburn's train. He's wearing h... | |
| 09.22.1944 | vics unheard news |
+ Vic has good news, but no one to tell it to! The program's open, close and commercials have been ... | |
| 09.25.1944 | saving bluetooth from tragedy |
+ Russell describes the problems of Blue-tooth Johnson with the opposite sex. The body of the show ... | |
| 09.26.1944 | a box of letters |
+ Russell reads Uncle Fletcher's old letters. A funny show that sneaks up on you. The body of the s... | |
| 09.27.1944 | groom disappears |
+ Uncle Fletcher is upset because Harry Feedburn has disappeared. The program's open, close and com... | |
| 09.28.1944 | a dun from kleeburgers |
+ Dash. Sade reads a letter from Aunt Bess. Vic decides to dun Kleeberger's Haberdashery! The progr... | |
| 09.29.1944 | brighteyed and eager |
+ The last show of the series, which would return to the air August 21, 1945. A planned visit downt... | |
| 10.27.1944 | sades thimble club |
+ Well Sir, it’s late afternoon as we approach the small house half way up the next block now, and... | |
| 03.18.1945 | the stillness of an afternoon is broken | ||
| 11.19.1945 | unwanted samaritan |
+ Oxydol, Camay. Miss Harris and Sade discuss the strange noises coming from Mrs. Donohue's attic. ... | |
| 11.20.1945 | korkells borrow a cup of sugar |
+ Oxydol, Camay. Mrs. Korkle is coming to borrow a cup of sugar...from twenty blocks away. Orville ... | |
| 11.21.1945 | jimmy custard |
+ Oxydol, Camay. The Gooks are about to leave for an evening with the Stembottoms when Uncle Fletch... | |
| 11.23.1945 | sleeping in the courthouse yard |
+ Oxydol, Camay. Uncle Fletcher plans to sleep tonight in the courthouse yard. Dwight Twentysixler ... | |
| 11.26.1945 | sweet corn mcblock |
+ Sweet Corn McBlock is being drummed out of The Sacred Stars Of The Milky Way. He failed to pay h... | |
| 11.27.1945 | parade of iterruptions |
+ Sade complains that she can't get her cleaning finished because of many interruptions. Jimmy Cus... | |
| 11.29.1945 | uncle fletcher arranges phone calls |
+ Uncle Fletcher receives a phone call or two...or three |
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